EXCISE DUTY NOTIFICATION

Excise Duty Notification No. 04/2010-central Excise (N.T.)

Feb 20, 2010

Notification No. 04/2010-Central Excise (N.T.), New Delhi, the 19^th February 2010.

G.S.R.     (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Excise Rules, 2002, namely:-

1.    Short title and commencement.-

(1) These rules may be called the Central Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2010.

(2) They shall come into force from the 1^st April 2010.

2.         In the Central Excise Rules, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 8, in sub-rule (1), in third proviso, for the words “duty of fifty lakhs rupees or more, other than the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit, in the preceding financial year,” the words, “total duty of rupees ten lakh or more including the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit in the preceding financial year” shall be substituted

3.         In the said rules, in rule 12, in sub-rule (1), after the second proviso and before third proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

“Provided also that where an assessee has paid total duty of rupees ten lakh or more including the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit in the preceding financial year, he shall file the monthly or quarterly return, as the case may be, electronically:”